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nvniroe i mcb Wodovs INlewpori' ffffeir By FRANCES KILKENNY. Newport, R. July 11. With an absence of haste that QDm Wmm 9(CIhmitB ta Newport's eyes seemed an almost deliberate snub, Father 'SI is The greatest drama New York has seen since John Warde sat on a hotel ledge in mid-Manhattan wasibeing- unfolded early today 100 feet above the World's Fair, where Joseph Cornelius Rathborne, society polo player, was stranded on the parachute jump with a young: woman. At 3:30 A.

M. today, while: "Bail-out" That Failed fc -i 1 1 a crowd of close to 10.000 forgot bedtime to watch the desperate rescue efforts, the couple had been marooned four hours and there was still no likelihood of their immediate descent. Some mystery surrounded the identity of Rathborne's companion. Jerome Zerbe. society photographer, hailed Rathborne and, calling him Cokey," asked who was with him.

"That's my wife," shouted Cokey. "Mind your own damned business," hallooed his companion. The chute car was too far from the ground to make identification of the occupants easy. The victims were caught by a jammed cable, perched at an angle of 30 degrees and all the efforts of firemen, police and mechanics couldn't budge the flimsy contraption in which they were suspended. Stuck at 11:30.

The parachute tower, at the dead end of the Fair in the Amusement Area, is 250 feet high. The couple were trapped at 100 feet when the chute was making its descent on guide wires. The other riders sailed gently to the ground, but Chute No. 6 stuck. That was at 11:30 last night.

Police and firemen were summoned at once. A mechanic for the The $100,000 Newport mansion which Mrs. Angela C. Kaufman has offered to Father Divine for "HeaTen." Divine, New York's colored "God," accepted tonight with reservations an invitation to establish another "Heaven" in this sacrosanct Summer cap-- repast, the city was downright ital of society. When Angela C.

Kaufman, Wealthy widow with a grudge shocked. But shock gave way to amazement when, after night had fallen, Father Divine, concluding a somewhat bewildering exchange of messages, wired: "Thank you for your kind invitation, which is receiving consideration. Wheresoever I am convinced from the within that my personal activities will be more constructive in the act of bringing an abolition of segregation and kife' -Zl discrimination and establishing concessionaire was pulled up to the righteousness according to the Constitution and the Amendments. 1 am glad to be represented in the act of promoting truth and integrity according to the Declaration of Independence. If a final Joseph Cornelius Rathborne.

society polo player, and young woman as they patiently wait rescue aboard stalled 'chute. decision is reached please wire me or send special delivery letter giving direct information on what terms you desire to receive myself and my followers and when it would be most convenient for yourself and others concerned." Itions of the smart Racquet and I Tennis. Meadowbrook and Piping I Rock Clubs. Harry Mitchell, the mechanic who who tried to disentangle the cable, i tried to soothe the couple by tell-i ing them 100,000 persons had gone The best Newport mind3 agreed that Father Divine, at least, was not rushing to crash society's portals, although there was a definite hint of willingness to educate (Continued on page li, col. 1 0 I up and down, the parachute jump without injury.

Crowd Tensely Alert. The crowd followed every movement under the bright lights of the Amusement Area, tensely, alert to the danger as the rescuers dangled high in the air. I always believed the story that if your parachute doesn't open, vou can take it back where vou eot New Marriage Law Trenton, July 11 An As I I sembly-approved measure denying legal recognition to common-law marriages effected after this year passed the New Jersey Senate to Mn. Angela Kaufman Give Newport a jolt. gainst Newport, this morning offered her 100,000 mansion.

The Castles, as a cote to which Divine "angels" might flock for rest and Joseph Cornelius Rathbom Up in thm air, trn of tht na rahntA in lniin day, ending a two-year legislative fight over its adoption. chair. The firemen ran up an 85- drew nearer, "but here's one that illest built i didn open and I can take the tallest foot aerial ladder, the damned thing back." The crowd Love Note in the Sky Fails Lonely Wiggie (Special to Tbe News) Omaha, July 11. A skywriting; pilot wrote a love message in smoke letters a half mile high over seven miles of sky this afternoon in an attempt to bring a man and his 23-year-old estranged wife back together again. But his work appeared to be in vain.

for fire-fighting, but it was 15 feet short of the goal. The couple took it coolly, but as the hours ticked away, the woman, who was not identified, was becoming fretful. I don't mean to criticize." she cried to rescuers, who went up and down the chutes with ropes and cables trying to free the tangles, "but get me out of here." Asks Cops to Break Polo Date. The man had little to say. He apparently was trying to comfort his companion, who was getting more uneasy by the moment.

About roared with laughter. He Takes It Eay. Rathborne took it easy. "I don't care if we stay up here ail night," he said, "as. long as we get down safely." "I'm getting cold up here." the woman said.

"Who is the of this thing anyway? You don't know anything about mechanics. "We'll get you down ail fight," Mitchell assured her. "How do you know you will?" she retorted. "You never had this happen before, so how do you know sketch'of the Parachute jump, showing how it works when it works. what to do inai iu uij A.

he shouted to police to ir jwiiuc iAj i seat, and it was piann-d to ease th i seat, aim ji was to rase ih i telephone a friend in Wheatley I Several times, when the strand- parachute to the ground. But with- Hills, L. with whom he had a ed victims seemed to be getting jit- in a few minutes it slipped back polo-playing engagement today. i tery, police spread life neta lest- The W'iggenjosts quarreled and separated on Independence Day. Helen filed suit for divorce the next day.

"She doubts that I love her," the lonesome husband explained. "But how can she doubt it if I write it in the sky in a way that love has never been told before? How could any woman refuse to be touched by a demonstration of such magnitude?" Wiggie is a sign painter whose hobby, i3. flying Oscar (Wiggie) Wiggenjost, 38, of Lincoln, paid Joe Jacob-son, Kansas City racing flier, to come here and skywrite: "Wiggie loves Helen." Wiggie got a tough break, however. Jacobson duly spurted out the message, at 160 miles an hour, but in the high wind no more than two of the letters were visible at any one time. And from all that could be learned, Helen, at her parents' home here, didn't even see In that way, Kathborne identity they fall.

But there was no dan-became known. He is a Yale ger of their slipping out of the graduate, living in Westbury. I seat because they were strapped in with his wife, the former Nancy securely, the buckles bein under- its -30-degree angle. Early as word of th World's Fair drama was spread by word of mouth, newspapers and radio, late-stayers at nsjrht club and barrooms were making bet on how long the coupJe would be marooned. Other pictere on Page 1) neath them Nelson Huidekoper of Baltimore, A little after 1 A.

the rescue seemed to be at hand. Mitchell succeeded in righting the crooked whom he married in 133o. He is connected with the New York Trust C. and prominent in func-.